Paperback, 368 pages
English language
Published Aug. 2, 2005 by Harper Perennial.
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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary studies: from c 1900 -
- Philosophers
- Beauvoir, Simone De - Prose & Criticism
- Biography / Autobiography
- French
- Biography/Autobiography
- Literary
- Historical - General
- Biography & Autobiography / Women